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Committee advances ordinance to tie elected officials' pay to annual index with opt‑out by council
Summary
The Finance Committee voted to recommend an ordinance establishing an automatic annual adjustment to elected officials’ pay tied to the Boston‑area Consumer Price Index (with a 2% cap and council waiver), and amended the measure to use January 1 of the prior calendar year for indexing.
The Somerville Finance Committee voted to recommend an ordinance that would establish an automatic annual adjustment to the salaries of elected officials, modeled in part on the city’s living wage language and other municipal practices.
The draft ordinance presented by Policy Analyst Brandon Salisbury would increase elected officials’ salaries each year by the lesser of (a) 2% or (b) the annual increase in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (Boston, Lawrence,…
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